The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 227
Edmund explained, and the master at once caned him for not speaking the truth.
Who acts: Edmund, master · What happens: explain, cane, not speak · To what, where: Germany, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edmund, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 explained | nsubj |
| 2 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caned | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caned | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caned | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 caned | obl |
| 9 | caned | cane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 explained | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caned | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 speaking | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 speaking | advmod |
| 13 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 caned | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 truth | det |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speaking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Edmund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cane | past | the master | Germany | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient at once=Location | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | gerund | the master not said here | the truth | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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